{"id":99295,"date":"2026-04-10T07:37:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T07:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tv.guardian.ng\/?p=99295"},"modified":"2026-04-10T07:37:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T07:37:50","slug":"strategic-djibouti-heads-to-polls-in-presidential-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/strategic-djibouti-heads-to-polls-in-presidential-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategic Djibouti heads to polls in presidential vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dailymotion-player\"><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/x1ee8e.js\" data-video=\"k25IqRRLofScuAFuON6\"><\/script><\/div><br><br><p>\nDjibouti heads to the polls this weekend in a presidential election widely expected to extend President Isma\u00efl Omar Guelleh\u2019s rule. Meanwhile, Pope Leo is set to become the first head of the Catholic Church to visit Algeria. And the Bijagos Archipelago in Guinea-Bissau has been added to UNESCO\u2019s World Heritage List.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Djibouti heads to the polls this weekend in a presidential election widely expected to extend President Isma\u00efl Omar Guelleh\u2019s rule. Meanwhile, Pope Leo is set to become the first head of the Catholic Church to visit Algeria. And the Bijagos Archipelago in Guinea-Bissau has been added to UNESCO\u2019s World Heritage List.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1535],"tags":[8014,20589],"class_list":["post-99295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","tag-djibouti","tag-presidential-vote"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Strategic Djibouti heads to polls in presidential vote - GuardianTV<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Djibouti heads to the polls this weekend in a presidential election widely expected to extend President Isma\u00efl Omar Guelleh\u2019s rule. Meanwhile, Pope Leo is set to become the first head of the Catholic Church to visit Algeria. And the Bijagos Archipelago in Guinea-Bissau has been added to UNESCO\u2019s World Heritage List.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/strategic-djibouti-heads-to-polls-in-presidential-vote\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Strategic Djibouti heads to polls in presidential vote - GuardianTV\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Djibouti heads to the polls this weekend in a presidential election widely expected to extend President Isma\u00efl Omar Guelleh\u2019s rule. Meanwhile, Pope Leo is set to become the first head of the Catholic Church to visit Algeria. And the Bijagos Archipelago in Guinea-Bissau has been added to UNESCO\u2019s World Heritage List.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/strategic-djibouti-heads-to-polls-in-presidential-vote\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"GuardianTV\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-04-10T07:37:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/tv.guardian.ng\/2026\/04\/Strategic-Djibouti-heads-to-polls-in-presidential-vote.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Abiodun Ogundairo\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Abiodun Ogundairo\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/strategic-djibouti-heads-to-polls-in-presidential-vote\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/strategic-djibouti-heads-to-polls-in-presidential-vote\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Abiodun Ogundairo\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/a7ea396ab9bae73d4845496dbad885f1\"},\"headline\":\"Strategic Djibouti heads to polls in presidential vote\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-04-10T07:37:50+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/strategic-djibouti-heads-to-polls-in-presidential-vote\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":67,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/strategic-djibouti-heads-to-polls-in-presidential-vote\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\\\/2026\\\/04\\\/Strategic-Djibouti-heads-to-polls-in-presidential-vote.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Djibouti\",\"presidential vote\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Africa\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/strategic-djibouti-heads-to-polls-in-presidential-vote\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/strategic-djibouti-heads-to-polls-in-presidential-vote\\\/\",\"name\":\"Strategic Djibouti heads to polls in presidential vote - GuardianTV\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/strategic-djibouti-heads-to-polls-in-presidential-vote\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/strategic-djibouti-heads-to-polls-in-presidential-vote\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\\\/2026\\\/04\\\/Strategic-Djibouti-heads-to-polls-in-presidential-vote.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-04-10T07:37:50+00:00\",\"description\":\"Djibouti heads to the polls this weekend in a presidential election widely expected to extend President Isma\u00efl Omar Guelleh\u2019s rule. Meanwhile, Pope Leo is set to become the first head of the Catholic Church to visit Algeria. And the Bijagos Archipelago in Guinea-Bissau has been added to UNESCO\u2019s World Heritage List.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/strategic-djibouti-heads-to-polls-in-presidential-vote\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/strategic-djibouti-heads-to-polls-in-presidential-vote\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/strategic-djibouti-heads-to-polls-in-presidential-vote\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\\\/2026\\\/04\\\/Strategic-Djibouti-heads-to-polls-in-presidential-vote.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\\\/2026\\\/04\\\/Strategic-Djibouti-heads-to-polls-in-presidential-vote.jpg\",\"width\":1280,\"height\":720,\"caption\":\"Strategic Djibouti heads to polls in presidential vote\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/strategic-djibouti-heads-to-polls-in-presidential-vote\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Strategic Djibouti heads to polls in presidential vote\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/\",\"name\":\"GuardianTV\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"GuardianTV\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/5SUudJ8m-oZUN2RNk-Logo-white.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/5SUudJ8m-oZUN2RNk-Logo-white.png\",\"width\":600,\"height\":96,\"caption\":\"GuardianTV\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/a7ea396ab9bae73d4845496dbad885f1\",\"name\":\"Abiodun Ogundairo\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/author\\\/abiodun\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Strategic Djibouti heads to polls in presidential vote - GuardianTV","description":"Djibouti heads to the polls this weekend in a presidential election widely expected to extend President Isma\u00efl Omar Guelleh\u2019s rule. Meanwhile, Pope Leo is set to become the first head of the Catholic Church to visit Algeria. And the Bijagos Archipelago in Guinea-Bissau has been added to UNESCO\u2019s World Heritage List.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/strategic-djibouti-heads-to-polls-in-presidential-vote\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Strategic Djibouti heads to polls in presidential vote - GuardianTV","og_description":"Djibouti heads to the polls this weekend in a presidential election widely expected to extend President Isma\u00efl Omar Guelleh\u2019s rule. Meanwhile, Pope Leo is set to become the first head of the Catholic Church to visit Algeria. And the Bijagos Archipelago in Guinea-Bissau has been added to UNESCO\u2019s World Heritage List.","og_url":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/strategic-djibouti-heads-to-polls-in-presidential-vote\/","og_site_name":"GuardianTV","article_published_time":"2026-04-10T07:37:50+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1280,"height":720,"url":"https:\/\/s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/tv.guardian.ng\/2026\/04\/Strategic-Djibouti-heads-to-polls-in-presidential-vote.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Abiodun Ogundairo","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Abiodun Ogundairo","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/strategic-djibouti-heads-to-polls-in-presidential-vote\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/strategic-djibouti-heads-to-polls-in-presidential-vote\/"},"author":{"name":"Abiodun Ogundairo","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#\/schema\/person\/a7ea396ab9bae73d4845496dbad885f1"},"headline":"Strategic Djibouti heads to polls in presidential vote","datePublished":"2026-04-10T07:37:50+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/strategic-djibouti-heads-to-polls-in-presidential-vote\/"},"wordCount":67,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/strategic-djibouti-heads-to-polls-in-presidential-vote\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\/2026\/04\/Strategic-Djibouti-heads-to-polls-in-presidential-vote.jpg","keywords":["Djibouti","presidential vote"],"articleSection":["Africa"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/strategic-djibouti-heads-to-polls-in-presidential-vote\/","url":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/strategic-djibouti-heads-to-polls-in-presidential-vote\/","name":"Strategic Djibouti heads to polls in presidential vote - GuardianTV","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/strategic-djibouti-heads-to-polls-in-presidential-vote\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/strategic-djibouti-heads-to-polls-in-presidential-vote\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\/2026\/04\/Strategic-Djibouti-heads-to-polls-in-presidential-vote.jpg","datePublished":"2026-04-10T07:37:50+00:00","description":"Djibouti heads to the polls this weekend in a presidential election widely expected to extend President Isma\u00efl Omar Guelleh\u2019s rule. Meanwhile, Pope Leo is set to become the first head of the Catholic Church to visit Algeria. And the Bijagos Archipelago in Guinea-Bissau has been added to UNESCO\u2019s World Heritage List.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/strategic-djibouti-heads-to-polls-in-presidential-vote\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/strategic-djibouti-heads-to-polls-in-presidential-vote\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/strategic-djibouti-heads-to-polls-in-presidential-vote\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\/2026\/04\/Strategic-Djibouti-heads-to-polls-in-presidential-vote.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\/2026\/04\/Strategic-Djibouti-heads-to-polls-in-presidential-vote.jpg","width":1280,"height":720,"caption":"Strategic Djibouti heads to polls in presidential vote"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/strategic-djibouti-heads-to-polls-in-presidential-vote\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Strategic Djibouti heads to polls in presidential vote"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#website","url":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/","name":"GuardianTV","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#organization","name":"GuardianTV","url":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\/2026\/09\/5SUudJ8m-oZUN2RNk-Logo-white.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\/2026\/09\/5SUudJ8m-oZUN2RNk-Logo-white.png","width":600,"height":96,"caption":"GuardianTV"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#\/schema\/person\/a7ea396ab9bae73d4845496dbad885f1","name":"Abiodun Ogundairo","url":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/author\/abiodun\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99297,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99295\/revisions\/99297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}